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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?

Herman Melville

Failure is the test of greatness.
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Failure Greatness One Liner
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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Belief Death Doubt Faith Food Herself Hope Religious
All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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Command Convince God Hard Persuade Remember
Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
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Better Family Fool Himself Husband Life Maid Man Men Old Partner Stay Woman
What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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Application Feeling Man Opinion Play Truth Universal
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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Connection Leaving Ourselves Togetherness
For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
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Horror Life Ocean Surround
The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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Man Material Poor
All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
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Age Crack Life Lying Reality Round Sharp World
I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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Charity Myself Oneself Prejudice Thinking
The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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Death Infidelity Live Man Vote
The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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Blind Evil Ourselves Removal Worst
The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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Eyes One Liner Soul Way
Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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Glide Monster Stars Universe
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
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Forever Free Future Government Past Religious Stand
All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
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Deep Earth Effort Ground Herself Mindset Thinking

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